- I Dormienti
Infobox Album
Name = I Dormienti
Type =Album
Artist =Brian Eno
Released = 1999
Recorded = 1999
Genre = Ambient
Length = 39:40
Label = Opal
Producer =Brian Eno
Reviews =Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fxfyxq80ldke link]
Chronology = Brian Eno
Last album = "" (1998)
This album = I Dormienti (1999)
Next album = "Kite Stories " (1999)"I Dormienti" is an ambient installation album from British musician
Brian Eno , released in 1999. It is also the title of an art-book by Eno and Italian artistMimmo Paladino , released in 2000, packaged with a copy of the album and featuring pictures & sketches of the Roundhouse Installation.Track listing
# I Dormienti - 39:40
Overview
An Opal release, with no catalogue number, this title is only available from EnoShop.
The music on the album is taken from an "Installation" - a show featuring music and visuals - that took place at the undercroft of the Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, Camden, London, from September 9th to October 6th, 1999.
The event featured the work of Italian painter, sculptor and set designer
Mimmo Paladino , who became established in the early 80's as one of the main exponents of the so-called "Transavanguardia", a form ofNeo-expressionism andLyrical Abstraction . This was the second of his exhibitions; the first did not feature Eno's collaboration.His exhibition was in the form of drawings and terracota sculptures - about 30 reclining figures with about 20 attendant crocodiles he called "I Dormienti", "The Sleepers". The publicity notice said of it "In the centre of a labyrinth of tunnels, Paladino will create an installation of primordial life forms that will be accompanied by Eno's unique sound and light production".
Actually, Eno had nothing to do with the lighting; illumination was provided by the venue's dim emergency lights which imparted a pallor to the sculptures and drawings. The music came from well-concealed speakers and consisted mainly of a three-note "Neroli"-esque sequence, and electronic noise. In his recent Installations at
Bonn andAmsterdam , stories spoken very slowly, one or two words at a time, were used in the performance, and here the method was developed further with treated, sampled voices speaking in syllables - an idea which would be used in his next album,Kite Stories .The material condensed onto the album in a single track consists of ten or so layers of the aforementioned syllables, speech excerpts, the standard Eno treated piano, and various drones and echoes.
The book
The book was edited by Demetrio Paparoni and published by Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore of Milan, in 2000, ISBN 88-88098-00-3. Two editions were printed:
* A presentation-boxed luxury edition of a print-run of 2000.
* A 100-copy special edition accompanied by an aquatint etching with drypoint and presented in a fired terracotta case, both designed by Paladino.It features a five-colour "pentachrome" printing-process, 250 gram card stock, silk screen printed cloth cover, protective sleeve, monochrome and colour photographs by Peppe Avallone of the Roundhouse exhibition, sketches by Paladino and Eno, a dialogue between the two artists, and the text is in Italian and English. 108 pages, 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches.
The CD is also included, with a different label to the album.
External links
* Three "I Dormienti" sculptures by
Mimmo Paladino .... [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/images/paladino.jpg1] , [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/images/palad1.jpg2] , [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/images/palad2.jpg3]
* [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/images/ref/idcollage.jpgCollage]
* [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/bibliog.html "Hyperreal" Eno bibliography]
* Information aboutMimmo Paladino .... [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/paladino_mimmo.html 4] , [http://the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=239B631B-C5CF-11D4-A93800D0B7069B40 5] , [http://www.waddington-galleries.com/artists/paladino/ 6] , [http://www.artnet.com/artist/13011/mimmo-paladino.html 7]
* [http://www.rubli.net/_beepdiscog/HT_FILES/html/84661.htm "Beep" discography entry]
* [http://www.discogs.com/release/183281 "Discogs.com" entry]
* [http://www.jamesputnam.org.uk/inv_exhibition_08.html "James Putnam" Roundhouse review]
* [http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/ "Roundhouse" homepage]
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